Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 86 83
Rank change year-on-year -13 -3 -29
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 2,127 1,679 2,180
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.80% 3.39% 2.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.47% 3.81% 3.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,423 805 1,284
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £58,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +11.54% -13.33%
75th Percentile £92,500 £91,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £116,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,310 £68,525 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.15% +9.64% -7.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86,281 44,107 61,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.16% 89.14% 81.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,444 24,402 33,284
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,274
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.62% -2.88%
75th Percentile £79,091 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 1 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 1 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -18 1,836 £75,000 +3.45% 1,666
UK excluding London -20 1,167 £69,310 +1.15% 893
Work from Home -20 860 £69,310 -0.99% 804
London -18 803 £85,000 +3.03% 990
North of England -49 378 £75,000 +7.14% 279
South East +47 321 £65,000 -7.14% 152
North West -58 204 £80,000 +14.29% 151
South West -7 146 £66,250 +10.42% 98
Midlands -52 109 £75,000 +7.14% 92
North East +12 92 £69,305 +59.78% 39
Yorkshire +9 82 £70,121 -1.24% 91
West Midlands -43 80 £80,000 +14.29% 55
Northern Ireland -25 72 £60,000 +33.33% 73
Wales -17 70 £60,000 +15.38% 28
East of England -41 42 £63,800 +0.08% 49
Scotland -44 34 £70,000 -9.68% 123
East Midlands -62 29 £65,000 -3.70% 37
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 44 (2.07%) Confluence
2 28 (1.32%) Apache Spark
3 21 (0.99%) Apache
4 18 (0.85%) CMS
5 14 (0.66%) Camunda
6 11 (0.52%) IIS
6 11 (0.52%) OpenStack
7 10 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 9 (0.42%) nginx
9 8 (0.38%) WordPress
10 7 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
10 7 (0.33%) JBoss
10 7 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (0.28%) Drupal
11 6 (0.28%) WebLogic
12 4 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
13 3 (0.14%) EPiServer
13 3 (0.14%) Kentico
13 3 (0.14%) Sitefinity
13 3 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 11 (0.52%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.47%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.094%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.094%) PlantUML
5 1 (0.047%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.24%) Oracle Retail
3 4 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.047%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.047%) Eikon
5 1 (0.047%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.047%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 1,096 (51.53%) AWS
2 906 (42.60%) Azure
3 332 (15.61%) GCP
4 284 (13.35%) GitHub
5 278 (13.07%) Serverless
6 200 (9.40%) SaaS
7 186 (8.74%) Azure DevOps
8 152 (7.15%) AWS Lambda
9 139 (6.54%) Amazon EKS
10 129 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
11 124 (5.83%) Amazon S3
12 109 (5.12%) GitHub Copilot
13 96 (4.51%) Azure Service Bus
14 93 (4.37%) Amazon ECS
15 86 (4.04%) GitHub Actions
16 68 (3.20%) Amazon SQS
17 64 (3.01%) Amazon EC2
18 62 (2.91%) Azure AKS
19 52 (2.44%) Azure Monitor
20 50 (2.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.13%) Network Security
2 15 (0.71%) Broadband
2 15 (0.71%) DMARC
3 14 (0.66%) DNS
3 14 (0.66%) VPN
4 12 (0.56%) MQTT
5 10 (0.47%) AMQP
5 10 (0.47%) HTTP
6 7 (0.33%) Firewall
6 7 (0.33%) Internet
6 7 (0.33%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.28%) Hyperconnected
8 5 (0.24%) RFID
9 3 (0.14%) LTE
9 3 (0.14%) NAS
9 3 (0.14%) SAN
9 3 (0.14%) SSL
10 2 (0.094%) BGP
10 2 (0.094%) DHCP
10 2 (0.094%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 319 (15.00%) MongoDB
2 244 (11.47%) PostgreSQL
3 212 (9.97%) NoSQL
4 166 (7.80%) Azure SQL Database
5 152 (7.15%) Elasticsearch
6 119 (5.59%) MySQL
7 107 (5.03%) SQL Server
8 96 (4.51%) Relational Database
9 73 (3.43%) Redis
10 58 (2.73%) DynamoDB
11 48 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
12 28 (1.32%) Big Data
13 21 (0.99%) Data Lake
14 16 (0.75%) Pinecone
15 15 (0.71%) RDBMS
16 12 (0.56%) DTS
17 11 (0.52%) Db2
18 10 (0.47%) Metadata
19 9 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
19 9 (0.42%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 305 (14.34%) Git
2 202 (9.50%) GitLab
3 172 (8.09%) Jenkins
4 74 (3.48%) TeamCity
5 67 (3.15%) JUnit
6 63 (2.96%) JIRA
7 61 (2.87%) Cucumber
8 40 (1.88%) Cypress.io
9 39 (1.83%) Mockito
10 37 (1.74%) Maven
11 34 (1.60%) Claude Code
12 30 (1.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 24 (1.13%) Selenium
14 17 (0.80%) SonarQube
14 17 (0.80%) Spock
15 16 (0.75%) REST Assured
16 15 (0.71%) JMeter
16 15 (0.71%) Postman
17 13 (0.61%) Vite
18 10 (0.47%) Bitbucket
General
1 546 (25.67%) Finance
2 441 (20.73%) Social Skills
3 251 (11.80%) Public Sector
4 211 (9.92%) Banking
5 174 (8.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 159 (7.48%) Law
7 150 (7.05%) Analytical Skills
8 142 (6.68%) Retail
9 93 (4.37%) Financial Institution
10 87 (4.09%) Legal
11 69 (3.24%) Back Office
12 60 (2.82%) Marketing
13 45 (2.12%) Aerospace
14 38 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
15 31 (1.46%) Games
16 28 (1.32%) Legal Technology
17 18 (0.85%) Front Office
18 16 (0.75%) Advertising
19 11 (0.52%) Manufacturing
19 11 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 759 (35.68%) Developer
2 527 (24.78%) Senior
3 382 (17.96%) Software Engineer
4 367 (17.25%) Lead
5 324 (15.23%) Architect
6 201 (9.45%) Senior Developer
7 193 (9.07%) .NET Developer
8 171 (8.04%) Java Developer
9 170 (7.99%) Full-Stack Developer
10 142 (6.68%) Java Engineer
11 132 (6.21%) Senior Software Engineer
12 127 (5.97%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 109 (5.12%) Solutions Architect
14 108 (5.08%) Principal Engineer
15 83 (3.90%) DevOps Engineer
16 82 (3.86%) Lead Software Engineer
17 69 (3.24%) Software Developer
18 66 (3.10%) Lead Developer
19 65 (3.06%) Backend Developer
20 64 (3.01%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 532 (25.01%) .NET
2 463 (21.77%) React
3 430 (20.22%) Node.js
4 422 (19.84%) Terraform
5 411 (19.32%) Spring
6 373 (17.54%) Spring Boot
7 324 (15.23%) RESTful
8 301 (14.15%) REST
9 296 (13.92%) Kafka
10 238 (11.19%) ASP.NET
11 232 (10.91%) AngularJS
12 217 (10.20%) .NET Core
13 199 (9.36%) Vue
14 193 (9.07%) ASP.NET Core
15 122 (5.74%) Blazor
16 102 (4.80%) ASP.NET Web API
17 89 (4.18%) RabbitMQ
18 88 (4.14%) HTML
19 87 (4.09%) .NET Framework
20 84 (3.95%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 705 (33.15%) Cloud Native
2 403 (18.95%) Distributed Systems
3 173 (8.13%) Product Ownership
4 126 (5.92%) Enterprise Software
5 105 (4.94%) Legacy Systems
6 84 (3.95%) Onboarding
7 64 (3.01%) Public Cloud
8 58 (2.73%) AI Agents
9 52 (2.44%) Virtual Team
10 47 (2.21%) e-Learning
11 46 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
12 45 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
13 29 (1.36%) Distributed Architecture
14 26 (1.22%) Management Information System
15 22 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
16 21 (0.99%) Algorithms
16 21 (0.99%) Mainframe
17 20 (0.94%) Private Cloud
18 19 (0.89%) Mobile App
18 19 (0.89%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 154 (7.24%) Linux
2 50 (2.35%) Windows
3 32 (1.50%) CentOS
3 32 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 22 (1.03%) Unix
5 10 (0.47%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.42%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.38%) Android
8 7 (0.33%) AIX
8 7 (0.33%) Debian
8 7 (0.33%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,175 (55.24%) CI/CD
2 1,031 (48.47%) Agile
3 768 (36.11%) Software Engineering
4 762 (35.83%) DevOps
5 570 (26.80%) Mentoring
6 569 (26.75%) Full-Stack Development
7 507 (23.84%) Event-Driven
8 474 (22.28%) AI
9 463 (21.77%) Test Automation
10 446 (20.97%) Infrastructure as Code
11 431 (20.26%) Continuous Improvement
12 418 (19.65%) Containerisation
13 382 (17.96%) Problem-Solving
14 337 (15.84%) Technical Leadership
15 313 (14.72%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 300 (14.10%) Scrum
17 265 (12.46%) Observability
18 263 (12.36%) Architectural Patterns
19 243 (11.42%) TDD
20 234 (11.00%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 796 (37.42%) Java
2 572 (26.89%) C#
3 513 (24.12%) SQL
4 453 (21.30%) JavaScript
5 424 (19.93%) Python
6 410 (19.28%) TypeScript
7 81 (3.81%) Go
8 57 (2.68%) Ruby
9 43 (2.02%) C++
10 36 (1.69%) Bash
11 33 (1.55%) PHP
12 28 (1.32%) Bicep
13 26 (1.22%) Kotlin
14 25 (1.18%) PowerShell
15 21 (0.99%) Rust
16 20 (0.94%) PL/SQL
17 18 (0.85%) Groovy
18 14 (0.66%) Shell Script
19 11 (0.52%) Scala
20 10 (0.47%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 357 (16.78%) Security Cleared
2 249 (11.71%) SC Cleared
3 171 (8.04%) Degree
4 104 (4.89%) DV Cleared
5 89 (4.18%) AWS Certification
6 86 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 61 (2.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 34 (1.60%) Azure Certification
8 34 (1.60%) CISSP
9 21 (0.99%) CISM
10 18 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
11 17 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
12 15 (0.71%) Master's Degree
13 10 (0.47%) MBA
14 8 (0.38%) DBS Check
15 7 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
16 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 6 (0.28%) PhD
17 5 (0.24%) CCSP
17 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 230 (10.81%) QA
2 100 (4.70%) Accessibility
3 40 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 38 (1.79%) WCAG
5 29 (1.36%) GDPR
6 23 (1.08%) NIST
7 19 (0.89%) Data Quality
8 17 (0.80%) NCSC
9 13 (0.61%) PCI DSS
10 12 (0.56%) SOC 2
11 9 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
11 9 (0.42%) GRC
11 9 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 9 (0.42%) ISO 20022
12 8 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
14 5 (0.24%) PSD2
14 5 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 3 (0.14%) IFRS
System Software
1 608 (28.58%) Docker
2 41 (1.93%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.47%) NDS
4 7 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.19%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.14%) KVM
8 2 (0.094%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.047%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.047%) Firmware
9 1 (0.047%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 688 (32.35%) Kubernetes
2 120 (5.64%) Grafana
3 109 (5.12%) Ansible
4 53 (2.49%) Prometheus
5 28 (1.32%) Argo
5 28 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
6 21 (0.99%) Puppet
7 18 (0.85%) Kibana
8 11 (0.52%) Cilium
9 6 (0.28%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.24%) Podman
11 4 (0.19%) HP Fortify
11 4 (0.19%) Packer
12 3 (0.14%) Kubeflow
12 3 (0.14%) Rancher
13 2 (0.094%) Microsoft Intune
14 1 (0.047%) Cisco CUCM
14 1 (0.047%) Consul
14 1 (0.047%) Fluentd
14 1 (0.047%) logstash
Vendors
1 343 (16.13%) Microsoft
2 101 (4.75%) Google
3 72 (3.39%) Oracle
4 55 (2.59%) Splunk
5 46 (2.16%) OpenAI
6 32 (1.50%) Dynatrace
7 28 (1.32%) Okta
8 26 (1.22%) ForgeRock
9 25 (1.18%) IBM
10 24 (1.13%) AppDynamics
10 24 (1.13%) Databricks
11 18 (0.85%) OneLogin
12 16 (0.75%) SAP
13 15 (0.71%) SendGrid
14 14 (0.66%) Adobe
14 14 (0.66%) OpenText
15 13 (0.61%) CyberArk
15 13 (0.61%) Mistral
16 12 (0.56%) Salesforce
17 10 (0.47%) NetIQ